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A Brief History of the United States.

submitted by VoodooV

1 decade 11 months 1 week ago

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING. This is an animated short that was part of Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine movie. I was really surprised to see this wasn't on the sift.

So I'm going to ask everyone a favor. I doubt it will work, but I'm going to try anyway. I want everyone to forget the guns/NRA aspect of this video. When I first saw this video years ago, the guns part really didn't stand out for me. It was the fear depicted in the video. I had never really thought about the fear aspect before and how that would drive people.

Why is America apparently more afraid than other countries?

Again, I know this video was designed to be about guns, but I'm going to ask that you refrain from commenting about the guns aspect. We pretty much know everyones' views on guns and gun control here so I'm not interested in re-hashing that.

Thanks.